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river deposition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| give and example of river deposition | oxbow lake |
| what stage of a river is an oxbow lake | old stage/middle stage |
| give some examples of an oxbow lake | Shannon Nor Moy |
| what type of erosion occurs as the meander continues to move down stream | lateral erosion |
| how are the velocity and discharge increased | a narrow neck of land separates the two outer meander banks and in time of flood they increase |
| once a lake had dried up what is it referred to as | scar or mort lake |
| how does the mort lake end up disappearing completely | repeated floods fill the mort lake with alluvium eventually causing it to disappear |